--- Chris Kuklewicz <haskell at list.mightyreason.com>
wrote:
> Also about sum-file: They do not reveal what the
> actual 8k test file contains. So there is no way
> to reproduce the benchmark locally for testing.
> (One can learn it totals 400000, but since
> negative numbers are allowed, this does not help
much).
It's created by catting the example file together
multiple times. I'll update the page to be more clear
about
this, and I can send you the actual file used on the
test
machine if you want.
> Apparantly it is bottlenecked by parsing strings
> into integers, but they specify "Programs should use
> built-in line-oriented I/O functions rather
> than custom-code." which means the programmer's
> hands are completely tied. So it is just a
benchmark of the
> build-in library function, not
> of any algorithm the programmer provides.
Yes -- it was designed as a test of the standard I/O
system.
-Brent